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YELLOW-MOUTH-FEVER
Finger Mullet
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 Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: Fried Hardhead Anyone????? |
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Hey,
Since everyone is so focused on the trout reg, thought I'd ask an off the wall question.
I'm one of those guys whos down to try just about anything, especially when fried. I've had fried mullet in the past. I know what your thinking and before all of the faces are made, I must say, it was very very good.
Which brings me to my question. Has anyone ever eaten fried hardhead???? Just curious if it was possible due to the toxins in the spines??
Anyway, Happy Fishing!!!! |
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skunked
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The Trash Heap
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Location: Corpus Christi
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject: Edible, Yes |
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One of the local TV weathermen here got together with a cook and had a fishing program on TV for a while. I remember them eating fried hardhead filets in one episode. Nobody died, except maybe in the audience. The guy said he liked it, but would you trust the word of a TV weatherman?
Fried mullet, both their filets and gizzards, tasted fine to me in Cedar Key, FL, but the mullet I caught and cooked in the Corpus area tasted muddy.
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Horse Mullet
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Location: Padre Island
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| My friends on the east coast eat mullet but it's not the same fish as the mullet here. Ours are twice as oily as what they eat. Now Hardheads are listed in my fishing book as better table fair than Gaftop catfish... But I've never been hungry (or drunk) enough to try one. My 2 cent's. |
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Surfer
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Joined: 19 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Now this is a great subject !! 
We eat hardhead as sashimi.  |
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putawaywet
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Location: Dripping Springs
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Gafftop is fantastic eating. White flakey meat.
While I try to avoid catching them if one large enough is boated it gets it's own spot in the box.
Ate lots of mullet on Mexicos west coast, although they are a clear water animal there. 'Tastey!'
Never tried Hardhead but heard the fillets are very small and dirty tasting.
Couldn't be any worse than Yellow or Bluecat that everyone gets at restaurants.
If you eat catfish you eat mud fish, period.
Catfish is a mud fish. All of it.
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Rooster
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Man, this weather needs to improve quick and everyone needs to go fishing if yall are starting to talk about eating hardheads  .
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putawaywet
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Rooster wrote: | | Man, this weather needs to improve quick and everyone needs to go fishing if yall are starting to talk about eating hardheads . |
Amen.
Going on hiatus for a week at the end of Feb..
Fish will be caught but no hardheads eaten.
I need some saltwater bad.
"guess thats the reason why we treat her like a lady." 
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Tailwalk watcher
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Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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Location: Baffin Bay or PINS.
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| Rooster wrote: | | Man, this weather needs to improve quick and everyone needs to go fishing if yall are starting to talk about eating hardheads . |
Well put.
I will never forget a guy about 25 years ago walking down the pier in Port A. asking for everyones hardheads. Yep, he said he was going to eat them. Never ate one and never plan to. And to think people at work looked at me like I was nuts last month when I told them I ate gator at BPS, but HH nope. I've been too long on the mainland...Time to cast 'em aside, catch the very next tide.
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R.Arnold
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried them when I was younger. The small ones are great and the big ones taste like fish dipped in mud. |
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sambo
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: NOOOO!!! SAPANKYOU!!! My Friend |
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Well as I have a cousin that eats them I still refuse to eat them.
Reason1:
I have caught them on rotted meat.
reason2:
I have seen them squirt out large green eggs and i do believe theese eggs could have been the product of an alien. Patrick remembers this trip.
reason3:
If I can catch them then i know darn well that they must not be good to eat.
Thanks guys for all the good times. See ya soon on the sand
Keep On Fishing
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Lost Cajun
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Location: Midland, TX
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: NOOOO!!! SAPANKYOU!!! My Friend |
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| sambo wrote: |
reason2:
I have seen them squirt out large green eggs and i do believe theese eggs could have been the product of an alien. Patrick remembers this trip.
Sambo |
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Gib
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject: hardhead |
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Never tried one and really do not intend to, but I do hear people say they are good eating.
If people are going to go for this then, skipjack, sting rays, and dog fish are good to eat.
Don't tell anyone, but the plan is to reduce the population of these critters. But, be careful because if it is too much fun or too much money being spent for such animals, TPWD will have to put in more regulations. |
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The Trash Heap
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Location: Corpus Christi
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: General Catfish Prejudice |
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putawaywet, my bs detector maxed out on reading your post:
| Quote: | Gafftop is fantastic eating. White flakey meat.
While I try to avoid catching them if one large enough is boated it gets it's own spot in the box.
Ate lots of mullet on Mexicos west coast, although they are a clear water animal there. 'Tastey!'
Never tried Hardhead but heard the fillets are very small and dirty tasting.
Couldn't be any worse than Yellow or Bluecat that everyone gets at restaurants.
If you eat catfish you eat mud fish, period.
Catfish is a mud fish. All of it.
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Gafftop ARE fantastic eating, but their flesh is very firm when cooked, and like all catfish and shrimp tend to toughen if overcooked. Yellow and blue cats aren't commercially raised, so what's served in restaurants is either farm-raised channel cat or some foreign thing that might or might not resemble any of the three.
Part of the reason yellows and blues aren't farmed is that both prefer live food, although all three catfish are opportunistic scavengers, just like chickens. Of the three, channel cats are far more inclined to eat their veggies, which is why they're farm-raised; a large part of their catfish chow is corn and other low-cost, low-protein ingredients. At one time, the goal was to raise a catfish for market at a price comparable pound-for-pound with chicken. It took too much protein to raise the yellows and blues, and they grew too slowly, so channels are the farner's species of choice. Too bad - my taste preference among them is fried yellow cat belly.
One reason that catfish, especially those served in restaurants, got a bad rap is that they can absorb funky flavors from the water they're raised in. One of the ways they can wind up in funky water is from too much food being thrown into their ponds, where it sinks to the bottom and rots. That lead to the discovery that catfish could be trained to feed themselves by pushing paddles that release their chow pellets on demand.
Gib, I've heard skipjack are bony and tasteless, and, while I've eaten stingray I'd not mistake the flavor or texture for fish; fried stingray resembles clam strips. Assuming by dogfish you mean the toadfish or oyster dog, I have no idea if anyone has ever tried one, or would even think of trying, considering how they look and feel. I hear people do eat the flesh of the spiny dogfish, a small shark, however.
De gustibus non disputandum est.
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miz_tarpon_tamer
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Rooster wrote: | | Man, this weather needs to improve quick and everyone needs to go fishing if yall are starting to talk about eating hardheads . |
Amen to that. LOL Im a girl who is usually willing to try anything once. But, I dont think i will be trying hardhead anytime soon. ewwww.
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